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So correct me if I'm wrong...

From what little I get of science, is this experiment like putting a cup of hot water at one end of the bath, measuring the other end and then claiming that adding hot water actually decreased the temperature?

Ummm no

No it's not. Gay people are a minority and being straight is the initial assumption, that's society's own ignorance. It makes no difference to you whether they say they're gay or not, so why do you care?

I'm not sure which is worse...that you think all gay people are activists come to rub your face in it, or that you think no one should ever express their uniqueness for the purposes of equality. You criticise PC people - but that's the pot calling the kettle black

There's no such thing as 100% security

There's no such thing as 100% security and serious bugs are still going to turn up. Still, it's the most secure OS of them all.

Still perhaps it's time to look at what can be done to minimise the damage of potential exploits similar to this one, if possible.

And I agree with Anonymous Coward, a higher level programming language managed OS might avoid some of these obvious but unseen bugs. That said, as Linus Torvalds seemed to suggest, the advantage of using C is that everyone can understand it, otherwise you get people making rubbish.

Ha!

Macs do look and preform very well, but for the price of £1000 I could buy three PC's, each with a large screen. I just can't warrant spending that much for one single computer.

I can just as easily get a PC for a third of the price and install Linux. I've got stability, much better security than mac OSX or windows, and all the same flashy effects and more on a less powerful graphics processor. If I need I can also dual boot windows for the rare occasion that I might need it. Macs really are just for those who are too lazy to read documentation.